The national rice development strategy in Madagascar or SNDR will be adapted to the current situation. The challenge is to achieve food security, restore and make Madagascar a resource or silo in and around the Indian Ocean region ...

It is through a workshop organized in the capital that the axes of change were considered in conformity with the current general policy of the State. Workshop organized on January 26, 2021 with the participation of rice growers, producers and traders ... This national strategy provides for greater involvement of local, municipal and district authorities in each region, allowing them to promote their rice products. The development of technology is also not forgotten in this national strategy, said the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Ranarivelo Lucien.

The collaboration between Madagascar and the Coalition for the Development of Rice in Africa or CARD allowed the design of this workshop to discuss the national strategy to promote rice production ... Partners such as the Japanese International Cooperation Agency "JICA" also contributed ...

Message from the Bishops at the end of the Pilgrimage

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, You who have come in such large numbers to take part in this national pilgrimage, as well as all of you who are following it from home through the media. We, the bishops of Madagascar, would like to express our deep gratitude to you for having responded to our invitation and for having brought this jubilee initiated by Pope Francis to life spiritually. With you, we take up Mary's song: ‘My soul exalts the Lord’ and we repeat with her: ‘What shall I repay the Lord for all the good he has done me?’....

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Love and Salvation

Christmas is a great joy, because it is the love of God that has come to us, proclaims Fr. Bizimana Innocent, Provincial Superior of the Salesians Don Bosco of Madagascar and Mauritius, presenting his Christmas greetings. Salvation is accomplished, so life is not in danger of disappearing. It is this love and this salvation that we wish to fill our life so that we have peace.

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Zatti, our brother

The short film "Zatti, our brother" (Argentina, 2020) focuses on one of the most difficult episodes of his life. We are in Viedma, in 1941: at the age of 60, Zatti is forced to leave the hospital he has attended for decades. His faith and strength are tested.

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